A Quiet Life

Last year, I read a book called The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron. It was more than a book, it was more like a self-paced course to help blocked creatives become creative again. I didn’t know that before I started, I just read it because it had been suggested by so many people in podcasts […]

I don’t know if it’s because I’m officially a ‘highly sensitive person’ (according to the book Quiet by Susan Cain) or that I’m an introvert, or what, but I seem to need a lot less stimulation than other people. I know that if I let it go too far, then I risk depression, but generally […]

A different podcast today as I was part of the Ultra106.5 Rise Up Appeal this week.

I’m not an ‘early bird’ or a ‘night owl’. I’m more some kind of ‘permanently exhausted pigeon’. No, that’s not quite the truth, it’s just a quote I like. I’m more of an early bird these days. But I do seem to need more sleep than your average bear. Sleep is so very important. I’ve […]

I used to be a messy, disorganised, cluttered person. I didn’t enjoy it, but I didn’t know how to be anything else. I didn’t know why I was how I was. I didn’t know how to change. I remember vividly one morning looking at the house and how disgusted I was by it. I couldn’t […]

When we talked about the big brain dump list, we talked about how our brains cannot hold all the things we would like them to hold. How if we are keeping everything in our heads, there is a big chance that some of the things will fall out. And, when it comes down to it, […]

Previously on this blog I talked about ‘The Everything List’ – the big brain-dump list of everything, the list that you use to clear your brain and to keep track of all the different jobs that you need to do. That is a really important list to use to get life organised, but it is […]

Our culture seems to be a little addicted to overwork. I mean, working hard, putting effort in, getting heaps done. That’s all good, isn’t it? That’s valuable. That makes us feel like productive members of society. We can tell ourselves that we are working and that it’s all goodness and duty, but maybe sometimes we […]

Do you know what your top values are? Do you know why you make decisions to do, or not do certain things? Do you have any idea what it is you’re really reaching for? Recently I found out that I really didn’t know what values I lived by. I had been talking with my psych […]

‘I had 90 minutes to myself,’ the tweet read. ‘No questions, no demands, just 90 minutes for me. OK, it was a root canal, but still.’ When was the last time you had time alone? Now I know that COVID meant that we were all living on top of each other, and in most places […]